Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In emotions that were not her own , waves had a liquid pounding substance to them culled from the beaches of Earth 's Pacific Ocean . |
2 | The heading ‘ Letterman productions , Hollywood , London , paris ’ , with a movie camera logo , seems to me to come from a comic book , but it obviously reminds Mr Shah of his brief association with Ava Gardner , Clark Gable and John Ford . |
3 | This result could have been spelled out more clearly in the statutes but it seems to me to follow from the provisions of the statutes as they stand and , contrary to the argument of Mr. Page , to be no more curious than the alternative for which he contends . |
4 | Beauty to him came from the soul , as we say , and he saw it as his task to exteriorise it in some way that harmonized with the subject matter . |
5 | The male body was of little aesthetic interest to him , and the female was so mutable , so much a function of its own motion , or that of light across it , that all static representation seemed to him doomed from the outset . |